How-to: Samsung Gravity Q: Improve Battery Life

If you are having trouble with battery life on your Gravity Q, you can try one or more of the following tweaks to increase battery life:

Adjusting Screen Settings:

While on the home screen, press the "Menu" button on your device

Tap "Settings"

Select "Display settings"

Tap "Brightness". Tap the "Brightness" slider and drag it to the left in order to decrease screen brightness

Tap "Save" to save the changes

Select "Backlight time"

Select "8 seconds" then tap "Save"

Turning Off Bluetooth:

While on the home screen, press the "Menu" key

Find and tap "Bluetooth"

Tap the "Phone" icon to disable Bluetooth

Checking for Software Updates:

Note: this tip should work only if there is an issue with battery life after updating to a recently released firmware, and only if a hotfix has been deployed in order to fix the issue. If no update is waiting for you in the "Software updates" menu, then the situation will not change after completing the following steps